My primary use will be gaming, Any other uses are just general things like word and what not,

my budget of $3000.00

Games i play would be BF3, MW3, GTA IV, Skyrim, Crysis and Various MMOrpgs.

i havn't added cooling

or HDD's into the build

Oh and i do want to do Crossfire

Just laying that out there, so we all know what we are talking about.

Now, and this may be a bit outlandish, but hang in here with me. If you are set on speeding 3 big ones on this rig, my advice is spend at least a grand on a monitor, or some amount of monitors. Get a 30" or 2x27" or whatever, some combination of monitors. Something IPS or 120hz for the 3d.

I don't think there's much point to getting anything more than an i5 2500k. I would just get one 7970 and see how it goes. You can add another one later. I don't know much about PSU power draw but I think that is overkill. I would prefer Enermax. I would just get 8 GB RAM unless you need the extra. With the motherboard, just get what you need. You might want to get a quality sound card. Seagate 2 TB drives seem to be pretty good value for money but if you need more capacity then get a bigger one. Try to see how much storage capacity you need for Windows and programs to figure out what size SSD you need. If you are going over budget or you want simpler storage management you could just get a 60 GB SSD and use it as a cache with Intel SRT. I would get an Intel 520 SSD as they seem to be good and have a five year warranty.

hey! that's virtually my system....
personally, I think anything over a 2500K is a complete waste of money.
all of the 2500K's will comfortably turbo to 4.6G (many will run stable and relatively cool at 5G and more - 57x multiplier even!)
you want a hellfast system?
just get a decent Z68/Z77 board (the Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 is highly recommended)
overclock the crap out of a 2500K
and bolt that to a nice fast SSD
the money that you save can be spent on cooling and peripherals

I approve the above. You could spend 3K in a far better way than you currently are.
As for Crossfire, well its up to you, but I'm finding my GTX480s (SLI'd) to be nearly fast enough for just about everything at 1080p, so you'd only want dual 680s or dual 7970s if you have a 2560x1440 screen or something.

thanx for the feed back guys i was definatley a long way off haha. is there much of a benefit going with water cooling or would fans be more than efficient? i'm not going to crossfire at this time if it's uneeded no point wasting money and i can always do it later if needed. definatley will stick to one screen, only because the screen boarders annoy the hell outa me on multiscreen setups. i'll review the advice i've been given and the builds that Pigs Can Fly and MisterK put together and see if i can come up with something more appropriate and see what you guys think :) i'll post it later tonight.
-Bippy2412

wow!
that Samsung 27" monitor is friggin' expensive!
I paid $279 for my AOC 27" with 2ms response.......they make most of the panels for the rest of the manufacturers.....
that builds pretty well spot on otherwise
as far as cooling goes, either Noctua, or Corsair - I'm over the big tower coolers, and opted for the Corsair H100, which I'm absolutely rapt in, the best cooler that I've ever bought over the counter

whether or not the hyper 212 is enough depends on how quiet you want your system to be and how high you wish to oc
Thermalright HR-02 Macho $59 will be a bit cooler but much quieter than your currently selected gpu
however it is massive and not as easy to install as a custom water kit and probably doesnt look as nice which is why a lot of people go with the water kits
the water kits dont have to worry about case temps so if your case airflow isnt great they gain an advantage over large hsf in temps

Meece and Keyboards are highly subjective, everyone like different things but most are in agreement that the G19 is an overpriced gimmick, this is from someone who still uses an original G15. Mine is a fairly nice board but tbh I don't really use the macro buttons (not an mmo player, I know myself well enough to stay away from that particular brand of crack) and I hardly ever use the screen, there are just not a lot of supported applications with it and mostly I'm looking at my monitor. I do like the backlighting and the fact that I can dim and turn it off and the windows key lock is the best thing ever, but my next keyboard will probably be a Corsair K60 or something similar because I (and most people) don't really need any of the extra fripperies.

Like I said though keyboards and especially meece are subjective. Go to a physical store and try a few to see what you like.

A word to the wise is sufficient. Conservatives require at least a paragraph.

AOC ... they make most of the panels for the rest of the manufacturers ...

That statement is so broad as to not mean anything.
As far as I am aware there is three or four major players in the LCD panel space. Samsung/Sony, Sharp, LG come to mind.
I'm pretty sure AOC doesn't specialise in high quality panels, and you get what you pay for.
Regardless, AOC is definitely not making the panel in that Samsung 27"

More room for some cost saving here. But it depends how you want to go about it.
The motherboard you have choses supports Intel's SRT which means you can assign your SSD as a cache, and it will transparently chose which files need to be on the SSD without you having to micromanage your installs.
This means you can get the $105 60G Intel 520
For benchmarking, not using SRT will be faster. In actual use, you will never notice. Except in one or two edge cases that depend on your usage style.

Also, the sweet spot for $ per GB is 2TB drives, which is why I put two of them in. 4TB of storage for the same price as 3TB.
With the added bonus of you not losing every bit of data when your drive inevitably fails.

As mentioned above, an extra $20 will go quite a long way here. Noise is usually my focus,followed by temps.
Which is why I went with a Scythe Mugen back when I built last, have been very happy with it
Dasa mentioned the Thermalright HR-02 Macho $59. I would say it's worth the extra $$

Very jealous over here, will be a great system.
Enjoy!

Personally I would buy one of those "catleap" 27" LCD's on ebay, they have the same panel as Apple uses (made by LG) at a fraction of the price.

Holy shit! How long have those things been around?
Have you seen any reviews for them?

Meece and Keyboards are highly subjective, everyone like different things but most are in agreement that the G19 is an overpriced gimmick, this is from someone who still uses an original G15. Mine is a fairly nice board but tbh I don't really use the macro buttons (not an mmo player, I know myself well enough to stay away from that particular brand of crack) and I hardly ever use the screen, there are just not a lot of supported applications with it and mostly I'm looking at my monitor. I do like the backlighting and the fact that I can dim and turn it off and the windows key lock is the best thing ever, but my next keyboard will probably be a Corsair K60 or something similar because I (and most people) don't really need any of the extra fripperies.

Like I said though keyboards and especially meece are subjective. Go to a physical store and try a few to see what you like.

I agree about the G19 massively overpriced for what it is, look at the Corsair K60 or K90, if you want back lighted keys then the K90 is the go also the macro keys are damn handy just in normal PC usage. Currently I have a G110 and use thse keys for cut, copy, paste etc any multiple kestroke operating can be placed in those. Regarding the mouse you do need to try them out see how they feel. I would recommend avoiding wireless/Bluetooth mice they are a pain. from my experience you need to place the receiver in the front USB ports, My MX1000 bluetooth will not respond properly if I place the blue tooth receiver in the rear USB ports. It is also prone to interference from other bluetooth devices. For gaming you just cannot beat a corded mouse.